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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

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MARCH 24, 2022

I have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms. I saw years ago in Oregon, a POLST form that had been on file in a nursing home resident’s chart for seven years. So what we’re talking about here are living wills, right? And it said comfort measures.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

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In a separate study in Chest , Lauren found pre-ICU frailty was associated with post-ICU disability and new nursing home admission. So, maybe the person with advanced dementia is coming in from the nursing home and nobody can find the living will from however many years ago. How do I reconcile these two issues?

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